Mathys Meyer

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

Years at Knox: 2009 to present

Education
Ph.D., Entomology, 2009, University of Illinois.
M.S., Biology, 2004, Illinois State University.
B.A., Biology, 2000, Knox College.
A.A., General Education, 1996, Carl Sandburg College.

Teaching Interests
Evolutionary biology, systematics and taxonomy.

Recent Recognition
Awards
UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Center of Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, 2007.

Membership Award, American Ornithologist's Union, 2005.

Herbert H. Ross Memorial Award in Systematics for type catalogue of Phthiraptera in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Illinois Natural History Survey, 2005.

General Education Teaching Award: Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, 2002.

Omar Rilett Research Award, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, 2000.

Burney Dunn Memorial Award for Field Research, Department of Biology, Knox College, 1999.

Bookfellow Prize for Archival Research, Seymour Library, Knox College, 1999.

Grants
Dissertation Travel Grant for survey of bird and bark lice in South Africa, University of Illinois, 2005.

Research Grant for systematics of Galliform lice, National Wild Turkey Federation, 2005.

Lincoln Scholarship for Research, Illinois Wild Turkey Federation, 2001.

Charles Stearns Herpetological Research Grant for taxonomy of Ptychadena, Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Science, 2001.

Collection Research Grant for taxonomy of Ptychadena, Department of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2001.

R.D. Weigel Research Grant, Department of Biological Sciences and Phi Sigma Chapter, Illinois State University, 2001.

Wildlife Preservation Grant, for a Herpetological Survey of Knox County, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 2001.

Research and Professional Development Grant, Graduate Student Association, Illinois State University, 2001, 2000.

Lincoln Scholarship for Research for amphibians and reptiles in Knox County, Illinois, Illinois Wild Turkey Federation, 2000.

Richter Memorial Scholarship for Research, Office of the Dean, Knox College, 1998, 1997.

Floyd C. Bicker Scholarship, Excelsior Masonic Lodge No. 97, Freeport, Illinois, 1996.

Recent Accomplishments
Publications
"Important Bird Records from Two Expeditions to the Upper Guinea Forest of Ghana." Co-authored with J.D. Weckstein, B.D. Marks, R.G. Moyle, K.P. Johnson, J. Braimah, J. Oppong, and J. Amponash." Malimbus - The Journal of the West African Ornithological Society, in press.

"A New Species of Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen, 1938 Parasitic on the Rufous-sided Broadbill in Ghana." Co-authored with R.D. Price and K.P. Johnson. Zootaxa 1762 (2008): 63-68.

"Rediscovery of the White-necked Picathartes in Ghana." Co-authored with D.D. Marks, J.D. Weckstein, K.P. Johnson, J. Braimah, and J. Oppong. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 124.2 (2004): 151-153.

Geographic Distribution, "Pseudacris Crucifer." Co-authored with J.A. Crawford. Herpetological Review 34.3 (2003): 259.

Geographic Distribution, "Emydoidea Blandingii." Herpetological Review 34.3 (2003): 260-261.

"New County Records of Amphibians and Reptiles from West-Central Illinois." Co-authored with John A. Crawford. Herpetological Review 33.4 (2002): 326.

"Filling in the Gaps I: New County Records for Amphibians and Reptiles in Illinois." Co-authored with J.E. Petzing, J.M. Mui, M.J. Dreslik, C.A. Phillips, D.B. Shepard, J.A. Crawford, A.R. Kuhns, T.G. Anton, E.O. Moll, J.G. Palis and D. Mauger. Herpetological Review 33.4 (2002): 327.

Geographic Distribution, "Hemidactylium Scutatum." Co-authored with J.A. Crawford, and S. Allison. Herpetological Review 33.3 (2002): 217.

Geographic Distribution, "Pseudacris Triseriata." Co-authored with K.K. Trester. Herpetological Review 32.2 (2001): 115.

Geographic Distribution, "Thamnopis Radix." Co-authored with K.K. Trester. Herpetological Review 32.2 (2001): 126.

Presentations
"Phylogenetic Relationships in Goniodes." Workshop on Bayesian and Likelihood Inference of Phylogeny: Organisms to Genomes, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, 2005.

"A Morphological Phylogeny of the African Anuran Subfamily Ptychadeninae." Department of Biological Sciences Exit Seminar, Illinois State University, 2004.

"Phylogenetic Relationships of the African Ptychadeninae." Behavior, Evolution, Ecology and Systematics (BEES) Seminar Series, Illinois State University, 2003.

"The Taxonomic Implications of Variation in the Morphology of the Pectoral Girdle and Hyoid Apparatus in Ptychadena Floweri and Ptychadena Mascareniensis." Third Annual Phi Sigma - Biological Sciences Research Symposium, Illinois State University, 2002.

"Evaluation of Course Components and Student Learning in a Non-majors Biology Course." With A.F. Bettendorf, P.Gong, K. Bossingham, S. Dillon and H. Tak Cheung. Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium, Illinois State University, 2001.

"A Historical Vertebrate Species List of the Green Oaks Field Station, Knox County, Illinois." 92nd Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Augustana College, 2000.

Campus & Community Involvement
American Ornithological Union (AOU).
American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH).
Herpetologists League (HL).
Society for Systematic Biology (SSB).
Zoological Society of Africa (ZSA).
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR).
Society for Conservation Biology.
Illinois State Academy of Science.

Contact
309-341-7312
mjmeyer@knox.edu